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My men have become women, but the women men.

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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill

My men have become women, but the women men.

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